When I was a kid my grandfather used to bring me to this valley, sit me on this bank and I would watch him fish.

This watch came from my grandfather. In 1963, after growing up in the Depression, he decided to go to Norway with his family. He never spent any money in his whole life, he was very frugal. And on that trip, he thought that he would honor himself with a large purchase, and at that time it was a very large purchase -- it was this watch.

After my grandmother died, he remarried, and his wife sold off all of our family heirlooms. But the one thing she didn’t get was this watch. Because he never took it off. He died in his sleep wearing this watch. My dad took it to get fixed be­fore he gave it to me, and while it was in the shop, his house was robbed, all the jewelry was taken, except for the watch, because it was in the shop. This was the only thing that didn’t go missing. After he got the watch back from the store, he passed it down to me.

So I’ve taken on the tradition of never taking this watch off.